Prep Roundup: Warriors role in tournament opener

Published: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 12:23 AM.

ELON — Top-seeded Western Alamance jumped out early behind strong pitching from Michael Olenoski and the Warriors defeated visiting Rockingham County 10-0 in five innings in the quarterfinals of the Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament for baseball Tuesday night.

Olenoski held the Cougars to three hits with no walks while striking out seven in four innings.

Garrett Hodge, Kevin Burns and Olenoski provided the power with home runs for the Warriors (20-4).

Hodge went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer and three RBI, Blake Deatherage also went 2-for-3 with a double and three runs scored and Sam Foster added a pair of hits for Western Alamance as the Warriors racked up 11 hits.

Burns’ home run was a solo shot and he finished 2-for-3 for the Warriors, who’ll play host the winner of tonight’s Williams High School / Eastern Guilford game in Thursday night’s semifinals.

-- EASTERN ALAMANCE 5, EDEN MOREHEAD 1:At Mebane, Zack Littell hit a pair of solo home runs and pitched a two-hitter while striking out 11 to lead the Eagles past visiting Eden Morehead in the quarterfinals of the Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament.

Ridge Eaton and McCray Williams had three hits apiece for Eastern Alamance (13-8).

ELON — Top-seeded Western Alamance jumped out early behind strong pitching from Michael Olenoski and the Warriors defeated visiting Rockingham County 10-0 in five innings in the quarterfinals of the Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament for baseball Tuesday night.

Olenoski held the Cougars to three hits with no walks while striking out seven in four innings.

Garrett Hodge, Kevin Burns and Olenoski provided the power with home runs for the Warriors (20-4).

Hodge went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer and three RBI, Blake Deatherage also went 2-for-3 with a double and three runs scored and Sam Foster added a pair of hits for Western Alamance as the Warriors racked up 11 hits.

Burns’ home run was a solo shot and he finished 2-for-3 for the Warriors, who’ll play host the winner of tonight’s Williams High School / Eastern Guilford game in Thursday night’s semifinals.

-- EASTERN ALAMANCE 5, EDEN MOREHEAD 1:At Mebane, Zack Littell hit a pair of solo home runs and pitched a two-hitter while striking out 11 to lead the Eagles past visiting Eden Morehead in the quarterfinals of the Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament.

Ridge Eaton and McCray Williams had three hits apiece for Eastern Alamance (13-8).

Williams and Matt Pate each had an RBI for the Eagles, who’ll play tonight at Northern Guilford in the semifinals.

Justin Morris shutdown Caldwell Academy in the bottom of the ninth for the victory.

BCA will travel to Trinity School of Durham / Chapel Hill for Thursday’s semifinals.

Softball

At Greensboro, Williams High School’s Rachel Crowder hit a double to knock in the tying run and later scored on a passed ball for the eventual game-winning run in the seventh inning of a 4-3 victory against Northern Guilford in the quarterfinals of the Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament.

Sarah Davis, who pitched a complete game, led off the top of the seventh with a single and scored on Crowder’s double. Crowder was 3-for-4 and Davis was 2-for-3 with an RBI.

Williams (9-6) will play the winner of today’s game between Western Alamance and Rockingham County.

Northern Guilford dropped to 14-10.

-- EASTERN ALAMANCE 16, EASTERN GUILFORD 1, 4 innings: At Mebane, Ashley Ammann bashed a home run and knocked in three runs in a 2-for-2 effort to lead the Eagles (18-4) in a Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament quarterfinal victory.

Mandi Ballard, Gracyn Allen-Ingle, Caroline Patterson and Milayn Dark all drove in two runs. Ballard was 2-for-3. Allen-Ingle also picked up the victory on the mound, improving to 18-4.

Eastern Alamance plays host to McMichael at 6:30 tonight in a semifinal game.

-- PROVIDENCE GROVE 6, GRAHAM 1: At Climax, fifth-seeded Graham’s 1-0 lead held up until the fourth inning of the Mid-State 2-A Conference Tournament quarterfinal and then host Providence Grove took charge. Sydney McCann had two hits for Graham (5-15) as its season ended.

At Elon, Betsy Middleton scored three goals and assisted on two others, Jackie MacAneney notched two goals and an assist and Jessica Brain netted two goals as Western Alamance routed visiting Eden Morehead 9-0 in a Mid-State 3-A Conference game.

Western Alamance (11-6-1, 9-2) scored five goals in the first 15 minutes and led 8-0 at halftime.

Hannah Hardcastle and Tanja Worden added goals for the Warriors. Carly Butler added an assist. Cassidy Kerney and Alex Gaines combined on the shutout in net.

Postponements

The Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament quarterfinal baseball game sending Williams High School to Eastern Guilford was postponed because of wet grounds and rescheduled for tonight, pushing the tournament back a day.

The same is true for the Mid-State 3-A Conference Tournament in softball because Rockingham County’s game at Western Alamance was reset for today.